The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity

Children of the light, live in the light.

I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

You don't just play a part. You've got to earn the right to play it.

This problem, once solved, will be simple.

Age will flatten a man.